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- verb Present participle of
pencil . - noun A
sketch made in pencil.
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Examples
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Hencastle (the pencilling has been a good deal admired in my time, though I say it that shouldn't), and the Red-haired Gentleman noticed it in a moment.
Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863
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In pencilled Hamburghs, on the other hand, there is much dissimilarity; the pencilling which is characteristic of the hens being almost absent in the males of both the golden and silver varieties.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845
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Then – decisively – WB Yeats met Tagore, read his poems and became his passionate advocate while pencilling in suggestions for improvements.
Rabindranath Tagore was a global phenomenon, so why is he so neglected? | Ian Jack 2011
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 The dialogue makes for drama, but unfortunately, weaknesses in the pencilling undermine the storytelling.
Zorro #1 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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Analysts are pencilling in further crisis-driven rate cuts by the ECB while the US Federal Reserve has already stated it will not raise rates until 2013 at the earliest.
What the European Central Bank's interest rate cut means for Britons 2011
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However, end of the day I still prefer pencilling the roughs by hand.
The DC Comics Guide to Digitally Drawing Comics » Comics Worth Reading 2009
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 Again, the strength of the scripting is really let down by the pencilling (although the colors are fantastic.)
Zorro #1 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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Another early pencilling job of his, which I found a bit later, was Hammer Locke - a great, overlooked little SF/superhero book.
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Fortunately, this is often the same person that does the pencilling.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Open Writing Forum 2009
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Sprouse actually sketched the entire layout and rough figures in reverse on the other side of the page before pencilling the his final illustration on the front side of the art board.
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